Caltech is a world-renowned and pioneering research and education institution dedicated to advancing science and engineering
Caltech at a glance
Research and Education
Academic Divisions
- Biology & Biological Engineering
- Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
- Engineering & Applied Science
- Geological & Planetary Sciences
- Humanities & Social Sciences
- Physics, Mathematics & Astronomy
26 academic options (programs)
49 cross-disciplinary research institutes and centers
Faculty
Approximately 300 professorial faculty
More than 600 research scholars
3:1 student-faculty ratio
Honors
Nobel Laureates : 33
National Medal of Science Recipients : 58
National Medal of Technology and Innovation Recipients : 13
National Academies Memberships : 111
Students
977 undergraduate students
1,204 graduate students
31% female / 69% male
98% placed in the top tenth of their high school graduating class
79% of Caltech alumni ultimately obtain a graduate degree
Class of 2018:
- 6,625 applicants
- 226 members of the freshman class
Affording Caltech
Students receiving need-based assistance: 51%
Average need-based financial-aid package: $39,813
Average indebtedness for class of 2013: $15,010 (among the lowest in the nation for a four-year college or university education)
Second in the U.S. in return on investment of degree
Living Alumni
22,930 in the U.S. and around the world
Global Facilities
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Founded by Caltech in the 1930s and managed for NASA since 1958
- 19 spacecraft and eight instruments employed in active missions
- Recently launched missions include the Mars Science Laboratory, Juno, Aquarius, and NuSTAR
- More than 100 research and mission collaborations with Caltech faculty
Caltech Seismological Laboratory
- Internationally recognized for excellence in geophysical research
- Research centers for seismic studies, high-performance computing, and mineral physics
- Preeminent source for earthquake information in Southern California and around the world
International Observatory Network
- W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii
- Palomar Observatory, California
- Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Hawaii
- Combined Array for Research in Millimeter-Wave Astronomy, California
- W. M. Keck Array, Antarctica
- Owens Valley Radio Observatory, California
- Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, Washington and Louisiana
- Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope, Chile (anticipated 2017)
- Thirty Meter Telescope, Hawaii (anticipated 2020)
You will find here in the Caltech institute of technology, the full-time, four-year undergraduate program focusing on its instruction on the arts and sciences. You will find t interesting to note that the university’s 24 majors-“options”- along with its 6 minors will fetch you a lot of space for study in all six academic segments.
You will spot here the university rendering interdisciplinary programs in Applied Physics, Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Computation and Neural Systems, as well.
The University also renders programmes in Control and Dynamical Systems, Environmental Science and Engineering, Geobiology and Astrobiology, etc.
Caltech demands that students complete the core curriculum of 30 classes with its five terms of mathematics, five terms of physics, two terms of chemistry, one term of biology, a freshman elective “menu” course, etc.
You will also find that students are expected to complete two terms of introductory lab courses, 2 terms of science writing, along with its 12 terms of humanities as well.
The new core curriculum effective from the 2013-2014 academic year reduces the math and physics requirements to three terms each, but most option requirements still require about five terms of math and physics.
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